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<span id="mmedia"></span><h1>22. Multimedia Services<a class="headerlink" href="#multimedia-services" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p>The modules described in this chapter implement various algorithms or interfaces
that are mainly useful for multimedia applications.  They are available at the
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